Monday, July 18, 2011

'Legends Never Die' Campaign Kicks Off

An air of uncertainty has nestled within our midst. A looming, ominous fear of the unknown has set our community ablaze, incited by a series of events surrounding the future of Mega Man Legends 3. There's no denying it: things have quieted down on the Legends 3 front. While we're confident in its progress, there is certainly some concern about what's going on with the game, and it's left us on the edge of our seats. If you feel the same, then we've got a mission to carry out.

Welcome aboard, friends, to the Legends Never Die campaign, a massive, joint operation between myself, Legends-Station, and The Mega Man Network. Our goal is simple, albeit powerful. Together, as a community, we will keep Capcom aware of how much we want MML3 and ensure it remains in the spotlight. Let it be made clear, we are not afraid about the game being cancelled, no; we are simply closing off any route that might lead to that outcome. As Devroom members, our responsibilities go far beyond thinking of ideas and responding to the Devteam. We are marketing, we are PR, we are consumers, and most of all, we are fans.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to snail-mail Capcom. Using pre-designed postcard templates, we are tasking you to mail Capcom your demands to see Mega Man Legends 3 completed. The postcards are your vehicle to Capcom's offices. They will get to the hands of many higher-ups, so you've got to make your message clear and powerful. Personalize it. Pour your heart and soul into it. You've waited a little over a decade for this thing thing; show Capcom just how much you want Legends 3 to happen!

All the details after the jump!

For your consideration, here are the postcards you will use, each attributed to a Servbot's facial expression.

Print out one (or more), and write your sentiment on them. Please keep your message civil. I know how passionate some of you can be, but that doesn't mean you should make any threats. That's not the point of this in the least. Keep it clean, keep it safe, and most importantly, be smart about what you say. We don't want to tick anyone off. Just the opposite. We want Capcom to feel how deep our desire to return to the world of Legends is; to once again sail the skies with Roll and Data, thwart the Bonnes, and make some new friends along the way.

A postcard is useless without an address, so do get equipped with the following:

Who to address it to? Well, you've a handful of options. You can't go wrong with Devroom liaison Greg "GregaMan" Moore, but it also couldn't hurt to shoot one to Seth Killian, Christian Svensson and Shawn Baxter. Oh what the heck, just send them one each! We're thinking of a three week-long time frame to send the postcards, so if you are able, try to get on it ASAP!

We've spent the last few days planning the Legends Never Die movement, so bear with us as we finalize future projects and aspirations. Next up on our agenda, we're planning on opening a central hub for fans to converge and "scheme" together. That part is a little ways off, but in the meantime, you've got some work to do of your own.

Mega Man fans across the world, I implore you to unite under our cause. Not just for the sake of Legends 3, but for the sake of the franchise itself. We have to ban together and show Capcom there is an audience out there, and it's hungry for more Blue Bomber.

Not that I look down at fan movements, but isn't it a bit of paranoia and overreacting just because Capcom went a little quiet on their games? They won't always provide us with a 24/7 status update on a game's progress.

*sigh* It's times like this that I wish my close friends liked Rockman as much as I do, (enough to care about this...) Regardless, I'll send off a few letters and then post a link to this article on my dA page to help get the word out.

i am avery very lazy person and anything i want to do usualy never gets done, but this, THIS my friends is an action i shall not take lightly. i wont just shrug it off and say ill do it tomorrow, i wont take my time and i wont send just one letter. this game has been a long time coming. we have all waited on this for many years and were overjoyed at sight of the blue light at the end of the tunnel. we as a community will show capcom how many fans megaman has! we will show them we wont give up untill megaman is brought unto us yet again! i shall see this through, TO THE END!!! WHO IS WITH ME!!!

This cancellation is just all the more reason to continue this campaign! Look, Capcom cancelled the game because they don't think it'd get a lot of attention or sales. Granted, only a complete IDIOT would think this, considering fan response in the first place, but if we keep this up and keep sending these, maybe they'll realize how much people want this and un-cancel it? I realize it's a longshot, but it's worth a try, right? I also think we need to send these over to Japan, since it IS Capcom Japan who made the decision.

There has been a large interest expressed across the Internets for the campaign. Some are more concentrated than others. You're already familiar with Legends station throwing in it's support, but there are a number of other pages that hope to get invested.

A rather popular facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/100000-Strong-for-Bringing-Back-Mega-Man-Legends-3/149316248475958

A youtube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/MML3Revival?feature=mhee

And various disgruntled fans across the internet who have yet to hear about, or throw their support in for the project. I've been working the past day to get communication going between everyone, to get all the fans on the same page, but word is still speading of teh cancellation and, well, I was hoping that by contacting the Big Three I'd be able to get some help in that. :)

In particular, I've been keeping tab son the facebook page, and there's lots of plans being thrown around. Some want to go to Otakon, and show their disapproval in person at the Megaman panel - not anything vular, of course, just a distrbution of flyers, voicing their opinions, and - most importantly - getting the fans together. This, especially, seems like something that could bare fruit: there are currently four or five fans wanting to see this happen, all of them ready to go to Otakon.

Meanwhile, there's still ongoing discussion on the Legends Station forum, and they've received a good bit of traffic since yesterday's announcement. If there's anything else a single Anon like me could be doing, well, I'm more than ready for it. Thank you.

Hey everybody, guess what. I just went and posted comments on youtube to tell megaman lovers to go to this website. I told them that there are comments that were said by capcom you wouldn't believe. Also, we should "invade" the japanese capcom too.

I really, seriously hope that this doesn't end up looking like spam, but I just wanted to mention that those who want to get their postcard professionally printed, either because of having no printer or for a better presentation, can do so here - http://www.print-services.org . They cover both the US and the UK, and are quite cheap (and there's an option for two sizes of postcard).

The best bet is to size your chosen image to 11cm high by 15cm wide, and save it as a JPEG using an image-editing program, and then use the "A6" sized postcard option on the website. Check the radio-button to have the image fill the page from left to right, so that no borders are present, before removing all of the optional example text on the front and back, which will leave you with a ready-to-write postcard.

I ordered mine yesterday, and will send it to Capcom as soon as it arrives. Good luck, everyone.